I remember that. My PE teacher had me climb up a pipe and get on the roof of the school to get all the balls off the roof (flat roof with pea gravel). It was 30 ft up there and I was in the 3rd grade. At the time she said not to tell anyone because they'd be jealous because they wouldn't be allowed on the roof.

Probably the craziest thing we did though was warball (most know as dodgeball). We could literally run to the basketball end line and throw at people pinned against the cinder block wall 15 feet away. I'm amazed no one suffered brain damage because we all aimed for heads.

annie88 said:

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Well the captioning service did a great job on this.

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I.CAN'T.BREATHE.....
That is GOLD. Funniest thing I've seen all week.

Sine poena nulla lex.

Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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lead paint
asbestos ceilings
toxic m&ms
no seatbelts
make spiders out of melted toxic plastic - creepy crawlers were later banned
secondhand smoke everywhere
no sunblock
no helmets on bikes or skateboards
riding in the back of trucks
playing unsupervised anywhere we could walk to in a half day
lawn darts
metal playground equipment that could scald you
swingsets on pavement not spongy mulch or rubber surfaces
choking hazard toys
riding on the back or front of bikes - double


we survived it all - well most of us

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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lead paint
asbestos ceilings
toxic m&ms
no seatbelts
make spiders out of melted toxic plastic - creepy crawlers were later banned
secondhand smoke everywhere
no sunblock
no helmets on bikes or skateboards
riding in the back of trucks
playing unsupervised anywhere we could walk to in a half day
lawn darts
metal playground equipment that could scald you
swingsets on pavement not spongy mulch or rubber surfaces
choking hazard toys
riding on the back or front of bikes - double


we survived it all - well most of us

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. I forgot about lawn darts!

If we had seen a kid with a helmet on we would have called him a homo lol

The metal playground thing was insane. My elementary school in Houston area had all metal equipment. I got multiple second and third degree burns from it early and late in the school year

Also, I swam in a pool when we moved to Memphis when I was 10 that had open asbestos on the walls of the indoor pool at Memphis state (now university of Memphis)). No one seemed to care lol

Well versed in both coke and crack. Just Ask Avis

Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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Ours was a wrestling mat, when you started PE in the 5th grade the coach would drop an egg from shoulder height to convince you you wouldn't get hurt if you fell off the rope.
We would have rope climbing races individual and team. the class would split into two teams and the 2 strategies were to have the fat kids go first and try to overcome the deficit with the fast climbers at the end so they would know what they had to do to win; or save the fat kids for last and try to get a lead so they would have pressure to try harder to get up the rope.

Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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We were tough as Seals, though, compared to the creampuffs running around now.

Cy_Tolliver said:

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Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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lead paint
asbestos ceilings
toxic m&ms
no seatbelts
make spiders out of melted toxic plastic - creepy crawlers were later banned
secondhand smoke everywhere
no sunblock
no helmets on bikes or skateboards
riding in the back of trucks
playing unsupervised anywhere we could walk to in a half day
lawn darts
metal playground equipment that could scald you
swingsets on pavement not spongy mulch or rubber surfaces
choking hazard toys
riding on the back or front of bikes - double


we survived it all - well most of us

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. I forgot about lawn darts!

If we had seen a kid with a helmet on we would have called him a homo lol

The metal playground thing was insane. My elementary school in Houston area had all metal equipment. I got multiple second and third degree burns from it early and late in the school year

Also, I swam in a pool when we moved to Memphis when I was 10 that had open asbestos on the walls of the indoor pool at Memphis state (now university of Memphis)). No one seemed to care lol

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The helmet comment hits home and I was a child of the late 80s early 90s. The metal dangerous playground equipment was spot on. I remember in 5th grade they came and put mulch (real mulch not fake plastic) under the playground equipment that wasn't on a concrete slab.

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annie88 said:

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Well the captioning service did a great job on this.

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I.CAN'T.BREATHE.....
That is GOLD. Funniest thing I've seen all week.

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I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe either.

I mean that gut busting goofball laugh

Not a tweet, but goodness.

I am sure these types of people are on both sides, but sheesh. To let another persons opinion affect you like this is ridiculous.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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lead paint
asbestos ceilings
toxic m&ms
no seatbelts
make spiders out of melted toxic plastic - creepy crawlers were later banned
secondhand smoke everywhere
no sunblock
no helmets on bikes or skateboards
riding in the back of trucks
playing unsupervised anywhere we could walk to in a half day
lawn darts
metal playground equipment that could scald you
swingsets on pavement not spongy mulch or rubber surfaces
choking hazard toys
riding on the back or front of bikes - double


we survived it all - well most of us

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iPhones cause more damage to today's kids than all of that stuff put together.

I just didn't know what Yoko looked like

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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lead paint
asbestos ceilings
toxic m&ms
no seatbelts
make spiders out of melted toxic plastic - creepy crawlers were later banned
secondhand smoke everywhere
no sunblock
no helmets on bikes or skateboards
riding in the back of trucks
playing unsupervised anywhere we could walk to in a half day
lawn darts
metal playground equipment that could scald you
swingsets on pavement not spongy mulch or rubber surfaces
choking hazard toys
riding on the back or front of bikes - double


we survived it all - well most of us

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I had a few split lips playing with this thing

Cy_Tolliver said:

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Some of the sh*t we went thru in the 70s seems so insane now. In elementary school they used to have us climb a rope in gym and ring a bell at the ceiling and the only safety precaution was one of those half inch thick gym mats. We were in third grade, not Seal candidates

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Between the Witch's Hat and the Buck-a-bout (that four-way see-saw on springs) it is amazing that nobody was killed during recess. Both of these stunts were against the rules but we kept doing them anyway:

With the Witch's Hat we would get 6-8 people on one side and lift a volunteer up high by pushing the "hat rim" against the center pole, then start spinning. The one person would see how long they could hang on while the rest of us tried to see how far we could launch him via centrifugal force.

The Buck-a-bout was our version of a mechanical bull. One person on one side, with 3-4 others on the other side pushing and pulling in all directions. The funniest part was when the "rider" tried to let go and would still get smacked in the rear 3-4 more times before landing on the ground.

VaultingChemist said:

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Yoko Ono's relationship with John Lennon is blamed for the breakup of the Beatles.

Similarly, Meghan Markle is being blamed for the breakup of the Royal Family.

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If you have to explain it

Poor girl has some sort of mental problem (and before someone says it, besides liberalism).

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Oh my god if he had only backed into a car coming down the street.

When we were kids in Houston we would run behind the mosquito fogger trucks. I have no idea why but at the time it seemed like fun! We also used to hang on the back of the milktruck while it went down our street And we're all still alive LOL

Sine poena nulla lex.

newsjunkie said:

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When we were kids in Houston we would run behind the mosquito fogger trucks. I have no idea why but at the time it seemed like fun! We also used to hang on the back of the milktruck while it went down our street And we're all still alive LOL

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That smell was a main summertime smell